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1) Insomnia
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
133 pages : 1 illustration ; 22 cm
Description
Marina Benjamin's Insomnia is part memoir and part philosophical inquiry into a condition that is on the rise and that can grant us insights into the workings of our unconscious minds. An intense and lyrical personal narrative, it treats insomnia as an experience, not a disorder, drawing on its influences on the arts and sciences throughout history, as well as on Benjamin's own life.--
Author
Series
Sleepwalkers volume 1
Publisher
Disney, Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Chronic sleepwalker Samantha "Sam" Fife, thirteen, discovers a whole world of disembodied SleepWakers after undergoing an experimental treatment.
Author
Description
One year ago, Isabelle Drake's life changed forever: her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his crib in the middle of the night while she and her husband were asleep in the next room. With little evidence and few leads for the police to chase, the case quickly went cold. However, Isabelle cannot rest until Mason is returned to her-literally. Except for the occasional catnap or small blackout where she loses track of time, she hasn't slept in a year....
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Welcome to Grand Prairie, Louisiana-land of confounding accents, hard-drinking senior citizens, and charming sinners-brought to hilarious life in a bracing, heartfelt debut novel simmering with Cajun spice... Father Steve Sibille has come home to the bayou to take charge of St. Pete's church. Among his challenges are teenybopper altar girls, insomnia-curing confessions, and alarmingly alluring congregant Vicky Carrier. Then there's Miss Rita, an irrepressible...
Author
Publisher
The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"In booming postwar Brooklyn, young David Nowak cannot fit in. His family, a pillar of the Polish immigrant community, is at a loss to help their boy, who is obsessive, neurotic and wracked by insomnia. After inheriting control of the family fortune while still in high school, David abandons life in New York to travel the world. His return to the U.S. with Daisy, a young Taiwanese woman, marks an irreparable break with his past. Escaping to the Northern...
Author
Publisher
TarcherPerigee book, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022].
Physical Desc
ix, 294 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"An intimate glimpse inside a silent epidemic that is harming teens and how parents can help them reclaim the restorative power of sleep. If you could protect your teen from unnecessary anxiety, depression, and chronic stress, and foster a greater sense of happiness and well-being in their life, wouldn't you? In Generation Sleepless, the authors of the classic guide to helping babies and young children develop healthy sleep habits The Happy Sleeper...
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 22
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
250 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Description
When the first Posadas County mystery, Heartshot, published in 1991, Bill Gastner was the county Undersheriff. Over time Bill became Sheriff, then retired, and Robert Torrez took over the top spot. But what were Torrez's first days as a rookie officer like? Terrible! It's 1986. Undersheriff Bill Gastner is enjoying his usual insomnia alone inside his old adobe when jolted by a horrendous noise. Dreading what he will find, he hastens to the nearby...
8) Icarus Falls
Author
Publisher
Rca Records
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
2 CDs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
2018 release from ZAYN, a follow-up to his 2016 debut Mind of Mine which contains a massive 27 tracks, including collaborations with Nicki Minaj and Timbaland.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A tender, witty debut novel about a single mother raising her daughter among the upper crust of New York City society in the late twentieth century from a nine-time Moth StorySLAM champion. Laura hails from the Upper East Side of Manhattan, born into old money, drifting aimlessly into her early thirties. One weekend in 1981 she meets Jefferson. The two sleep together. He vanishes. And Laura realizes she's pregnant. Enter: Emma. Despite her progressive...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
143 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
An intimate memoir that provides a unique perspective on the life and legacy of Stieg Larsson, author of The Millennium Trilogy. "He was both a dream and a nightmare to work with. He was not only involved in the struggle against intolerance, he was obsessed with it" are the words used to describe the now world famous author Stieg Larsson by his friend and close colleague, Kurdo Baksi, who himself was a prominent character in The Millennium Trilogy....
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Description
In an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families, Reně, the concierge, and Paloma, a twelve-year-old genius, hide both their true talents and their finest qualities from a world they suspect cannot or will not appreciate them. They discover their kindred souls when a wealthy Japanese man named Kakuro Ozu arrives in the building. Only he is able to gain Paloma's trust and to see through Reně's timeworn disguise to the secret that...
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